I am sorry to report that we have learned that Brian Walton, who served as
the coordinator of the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group for the
past 31 years, died this past Friday.
Under Brian's leadership, the UCSC research group was instrumental in the
restoration of the peregrine falcon on the West Coast. Nearly extinct two
decades earlier, the peregrine was removed from the endangered species list
in 1999 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Please join me in extending our deepest condolences to Brian's family and
to his many friends and colleagues, on and off campus.
For more information about Brian's career and a memorial event the family
is planning, please see an obituary distributed today by our Public
Information Office:http://press.ucsc.edu/text.asp?pid=1401
